By now we have all heard the staggering statistics on the American justice
system. 25% of the world's prisoners, over 2 million incarcerated, 6 million
under some type of legal supervision, and hundreds of thousands locked up in
facilities which are run by private companies. Beginning with the deaths
following the Attica uprising thirty years ago, Safety Orange explores the
radical changes in public policy that have wrought poor neighborhoods as war
zones and public schools as decrepit gulags with random searches and few
windows. The film revolves around how the architecture of the prison and that of
the school have collapsed into one another as the architects themselves have
moved from building hospitals and schools in the 70s and early 80s to building
prisons in the last fifteen years, as public funds for the former dried up. This
policy process is explained through graphic elements and interviews and is
understood by the term "from welfare to warfare". The film accompanies a Fresno
anti gang police task force whose job is to register youths as gang members and
ends on a bus from NYC to Attica with women going to visit loved ones
incarcerated there. Safety Orange is a documentary which looks deep into the
culture of the American criminal justice system.

Bidam (With Blood) observes the lives of health workers and their patients in
the cities, rural villages, and refugee camps of the West Bank and the Gaza
Strip. This film starkly reveals the extent to which the Israeli occupation is
systematically rendering the delivery of health services to Palestinians
practically impossible. Using personal situations to demonstrate the effects of
political policy and military actions, the documentary offers general audiences
a way to approach what is often seen as an impenetrable political struggle.
Specifically, the documentary will investigate the effect of closure and siege
on access to health care, numerous instances of direct attacks on medical
personnel, vehicles, and facilities, the effects of pollution in the form of
waste from settlements on neighboring Palestinian communities, and the serious
consequences of social erosion and trauma on mental health. By focusing on
civilians and health workers, we hope to draw attention to the compelling
stories of ordinary people's struggle to overcome extraordinary obstacles in the
pursuit of routine health care.